The American parent organisation of Nick Tenconi’s Turning Point UK has caved in to pressure from President Trump and dropped demands for the release of the notorious Jeffrey Epstein paedophile ‘client list’.
Despite loudly calling for the release of the list until last weekend, Turning Point USA founder and leader Charlie Kirk has now surrendered to pressure from Trump and backed off.
Nick Tenconi, also the leader of UKIP, is the Chief Operating Officer of Turning Point UK, set up by Kirk seven years ago.
Epstein was already a convicted child sex offender and sex trafficker when he was arrested in 2019 during Trump’s first term. He was accused of trafficking dozens of underage girls for sex in Florida and New York.
He died in his prison cell shortly afterwards, officially having committed suicide, but the allegation that he was murdered to keep him quiet has refused to go away.
Underage girls for sex
So has the claim that he kept a ‘client list’ – a list of important or influential individuals, some of whom he allegedly supplied with underage girls for sex.
And, according to Elon Musk, lashing out after his recent falling out with the President, Donald Trump’s name is on the list.
It has not been definitively established that such a list exists but regardless of that, TP USA abandoning calls for it to be released, after repeatedly demanding its publication, speaks to their willingness to prostrate themselves before Trump and dump the interests of children and young people who may have been abused.
Even if there was child abuse, they are no longer interested.
Certainly Trump and Epstein were close over many years and ‘socialised’ together often in the presence of large numbers of unattached young women.
But conspiracy-obsessed Trump supporters have been vociferous in demanding the list should be made public.
One of those calling loudly for its publication has been Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr, who in a speech to the Turning Point USA Action Conference last year, in the run up to the Presidential election, accused the Biden administration of suppressing the list to protect paedophile Democrats.
Wealthy and influential
Turning Point UK under Tenconi doesn’t amount to much, but the same cannot be said of its American parent. TP USA is big, wealthy and influential and has been one of the most important groups backing Trump.
Founded by Charlie Kirk in 2012 it is a mass, college-based organisation which claims it spent over $100 million campaigning for Trump in the presidential election, and sent thousands of student volunteers out canvassing for him in swing states.
President Trump has said that he is a huge fan of Charlie Kirk.
Its British offshoot, Turning Point UK, was launched in 2018 at a London event headed up by Charlie Kirk and TP USA Communications Director, Candace Owens.
Since 2021 it has been run by Nick Tenconi, who stayed on as its Chief Operating Officer even after he became leader of UKIP two years ago.
Kirk has loudly amplified calls for the publication of the Epstein files.
On his Salem News Channel podcast – one of the most popular political podcasts in the US – he told listeners only last weekend that they must “demand release of the Epstein files” and that “Epstein is the sole focus.”
This followed Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi announcing that there was, after all, no client list – even though she had previously said it was sitting on her desk, awaiting her attention and that there were other documents which she planned to make public. Then, all of a sudden, there were none.
Conspiracy-obsessed MAGA supporters across the country went into meltdown.
Polls showed that only some 3% of the public happy with the way it was being handled. Even amongst Trump’s Republican supporters, 43% declared themselves unhappy.
Almost 80% of those polled said the government should release all documents in the Epstein case.
The question many asked was “What has he got to hide?”
This was an unprecedented crisis for Trump and he took to social media furiously denouncing the whole ‘client list’ story as a Biden administration hoax.
But that’s not all he did. He started calling up prominent right-wing figures who had been calling for the release of the list and strongarming them to sign up to the official version – or, at least, just keep quiet.
One of those he called up was Nick Tenconi’s US mate and mentor, Charlie Kirk.
And Kirk caved.
One phone call
The man who only a few days earlier had insisted that “Epstein is the sole focus” now announced that “I’m done talking about Epstein… I’m gonna trust my friends in government.”
This, after years of insisting that identities in the Epstein case were being kept from the public in order to protect child abusers and sex traffickers. Just one phone call from a rapist and self-confessed sex abuser was all it took.
It is, perhaps, something we should not let Kirk’s UK sidekick Nick Tenconi forget too easily, when he and his small band of followers are parading around – as they did at Honor Oak in south London two years ago – claiming they are there to “protect the children.”
They most certainly are not.
